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(0)Bernd Thaller
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"Visual Quantum Mechanics uses the computer-generated animations found on the accompanying CD-ROM to introduce, motivate, and illustrate the concepts explained in the book. By watching QuickTime movies of the solutions of Schrodinger's equation, students will develop a feeling for the behavior of quantum-mechanical systems, which cannot be gained by conventional means." "There is no special emphasis on computational physics or requirement that the...
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"Did you grow up thinking math is boring? It's time to reconsider. This book will teach you everything you ever wondered about numbers--and more. How and why did human beings first start using numbers at the dawn of history? Would numbers exist if we Homo sapiens weren't around to discover them? What's so special about weird numbers like pi and the Fibonacci sequence? What about rational, irrational, real, and imaginary numbers? Why do we need them?...